My Lupo Sport - Updated 5/3/2007

[Jam]

Thought i would start off the life of my new lupo for you all to see the progress. anyway here it goes

Been a long day today but finally manged to find a sport i like and managed to get it.

got some big plans for her but all comes down to money and time.

so far shes got an ABT front bumper, ABT side skirts, ABT grille and fully colour coded, Thatchams cat 1 alarm, blaupunkt headunit. Not 100% sure on the front bumper so may change it when get the rear one sorted. :D

heres the first few pics of her.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/luposport004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/luposport003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/luposport001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/luposport002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/luposport005.jpg

short term plans - Remove mud flaps, Pioneer headunit, carbon fibre rocker cover, alloys15's or 16's, FK coilovers, vw cambridge rear lights, black mesh instead of silver and blue, tints, aero rear wiper, single wiper conversion, possibly debadge, powerflow cat back exhaust, possibly full enclosed induction kit

future plans - zender rear bumper, maybe new front bumper, full pioneer system, double din pioneer tv headunit, full custom install, Revo chip, leather retrim and customised interior, gti headlights, right hand passenger mirror from germany to match left hand mirror over here as are different sizes.

long term plans - Wide arch kit, possibly made wider to suit wheels, 16x9j borbet design a, archs blended in to wings and rear quarters, side skirts blended, bumpers blended together as they come in 2 parts, maybe smoothed boot and handles, maybe bike wing mirrors, full 2 tone respary inside, outside and engine bay, possibly airbags, possible engine conversion or just a tune up.

hope you all like

more pics and updates coming soon :D

[Beaver]

Looking well jam like the colour

[Crazylow]

any update mate you got coilovers on yet any pics

[Mike H]

His computer is fooked at the moment, coilovers are on and it's fucking SLAMMED... seriously.... he came to my house in it the other day, and his is lower than mine. :pmsl: And mine has a splitter on too!

[Jam]

Right big update now. never get round to updating pics so done it all at once now :lol:

right ive now got a front upper strut brace and rear strut brace sat in my room, unsure whether to put them on though.

also got hold of a carbon firbe rocker cover and still need to put it on, so will update you with that soon, been waiting for an oil cap which ive just got last week.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/15062006649-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/10082006970.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/10082006971.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/10082006972.jpg

as me rear number plate was a bit tatty i decided to update both of them with some nice new german style pressed plates, absolutly love these :D

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/24062006696.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/24062006699.jpg

After

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/24062006697.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/24062006700.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/24062006701.jpg

new rear wiper was in desparate need of changing as it was totaly torn so replaced the full arm with the VW Aero Rear Wiper.

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/01072006716.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/01072006717.jpg

During, SO tempting to de wiper her

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/01072006718.jpg

New Wiper

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/01072006719.jpg

After

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/01072006721.jpg

I also decided to change the front wiper as they were getting slightly worn.

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06072006738.jpg

During

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06072006744.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06072006739.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06072006740.jpg

After

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06072006745.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06072006746.jpg

Biggest mod so far is lowering her on FK Konigsport coilovers

was a big drop especially when the camber was throwin in about 5 degrees. :lol:

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006663.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006664.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006665.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006666.jpg

New coilovers ready to go on :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006667.jpg

now pics of them on the car

Front

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006671.jpg

Rear

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006670.jpg

now how she was sitting straight after dropping her

here you can see how far the camber had gone camber :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006675.jpg

and the rear

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/18062006676.jpg

Last thing for now is i decided to refurbish my wheels as i cant afford a new set just yet so refurbished them and resprayed in white with a blue pearl to them

My temporary wheels

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/02082006933.jpg

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/02082006935.jpg

During

Shell working on preping the wheels

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/02082006934.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/02082006937.jpg

After the wheels had been preped

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/02082006936.jpg

next i masked them up and primed them to give them a good base stick to

Masked and ready to prime

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/03082006942.jpg

pics of me priming the wheels

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/03082006940.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/03082006941.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/03082006944.jpg

primed wheel

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/03082006943.jpg

Guide coated and ready to be flatted

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/04082006948.jpg

Sprayed white

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06082006951.jpg

White with blue pearl

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06082006953.jpg

Laquered

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/06082006960.jpg

Now outside flatted, buffed and washed

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/07082006961.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/07082006963.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/07082006962.jpg

and finaly back on her and how she looked yesterday

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/09082006967.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/09082006966.jpg

Hope you all like

New pics will be coming soon when i get time to take some.

Next mods

Brand new VW alloy centre caps
debadged
VW recess on boot smoothed
Rub strips removed
Tints

[Jam]

Right time for another fair sized update :D

some of my plans happened before i get to e38 this weekend, sadly not all of them.

anyway managed to get my boot smoothed and de rubstirpped over a few days and late nights last week :lol:

Before boot smoothing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061003.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061007.jpg

Debadging and smoothing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061008.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061009.jpg

Key'd up for fibreglass to stick

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061010.jpg

and fibreglass in. looks like shite but does the job :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061012.jpg

now with other badges removed using a bo spreader

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061014.jpg

next used caramel wheel on a drill to remove the excess glue from the badges without damaging paint

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061018.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/220820061019.jpg

Boot being worked on

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061022.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061023.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061039.jpg

Now the bumper being repaired

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061024.jpg

Fibreglass reinforced from behind

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061025.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061026.jpg

Spoiler before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061027.jpg

Black mark on the left is where the aerial caught and why i moddified it

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061031.jpg

Modiffied Spoiler

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061035.jpg

Now For Primer

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061037.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061038.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061032.jpg

Priming

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061041.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/230820061046.jpg

Spoiler notch in use

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061049.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061050.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061052.jpg

Now finally masked up and sprayed

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061063.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061064.jpg

Sprayed and unmasked

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061065.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061069.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061070.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061071.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061072.jpg

Now for derubrtipping

before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061056.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/240820061057.jpg

after

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061067.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/250820061068.jpg

Finally a few other little bits

managed to get some new polished vw boot lifters off a mk5 polo and fitted them a few days ago

old lifter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/290820061077.jpg

new lifter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/290820061078.jpg

new lifter fitted

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/290820061079.jpg

and Carbon Fibre rocker cover

Before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/290820061080.jpg

after

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/290820061082.jpg


and finally my latest mod, only done today and its a love or hate kind of mod but i'm definatly a lover of this. total euro mod :D

Checkered Roof :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/310820061083.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/310820061084.jpg


Thats all for now, more updates on the way very soon :D

[Martine]

Looks very nice that, jam.

[Bulldog]

Coming along nicely now fella

Not keen on the roof though

[Jam]

well got new front seats tonight off black TDI (cheers mate) :lol:

Golf GTI (Non recaros though but better than my standard tim/tom ones.

cant wait to get them fitted now :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/JAM86/seats.jpg